The heroes of a HYPERBOREA campaign delve the mazes and labyrinths of vast dungeons filled with horrifying monsters, lethal traps, and bewildering puzzles. They explore savage frontiers, breach hostile borderlands, probe ancient ruins, and investigate cursed tombs. They plunder for treasure and magic in a decaying world inhabited by bloodthirsty beasts and weird, otherworldly beings.

Fun to Say, Fun to Play! Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea (AS&SH) must have one of the best names given to a game product, ever. The rules to AS&SH appear as a very clean and tidyed-up version (such as using a d12 for [...]

I spent years browsing the RPG sections of Powells, not knowing exactly what I was looking for but searching nonetheless. Every once in a while I would buy something but it was always a disappointment. If only I knew that what I wanted was ASSo [...]

An absolutely great product, I'm not sure how more value could be crammed within these pages. I love the human-centric system and the base/expanded class options. I originally bought the pdfs for AS&SH and then just had to have a hard copy, so I or [...]

AS&SH is the game I've been searching for, for about the last 10 years. It's basically a revised version of the 1st Edition of AD&D, but edited in a way that I was actually able to understand. And not just "able to", learning how to [...]

This game is pretty much D&D as it should have been, LOTR-influences have been thrown away and no prancing hobbits or frolicking elves have been left. This game is what I would imagine D&D would have been if it would have been true to it's lite [...]

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